conjugate
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.Examples: "In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'."transitive
2. (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3. (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.Examples: "The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease."rare
4. (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
noun (English)
1. (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
2. (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
3. (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
4. (mathematics) An explementary angle.
5. (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.Examples: "17th c, John Bramhall, We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed."
6. (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
adj (English)
1. (botany) In single pairs; coupled.not-comparable
2. (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.not-comparable
3. (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.not-comparable
4. (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.not-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary